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Another day, another selection of Star Wars merch seen below is a lightsaber umbrella marked with the Rebel Alliance logo. There ally exciting part is the umbrellas have lightsaber handles and won’t be available until next year. Yup, really exciting. /sarc! Seriously though, these umbrellas come in three variants. There’s the Rebel Alliance pictured (a.k.a [...]

If you think our corner of the galaxy is in terrible shape—inhabited by dwarf planets and so far occupied by a single sentient species—wait until you here about a distant neighbor, NGC 3842. They got is so bad over at their place, that scientists are mopping their brows of anxious sweat as they pore over [...]

A long time ago in Portugal (okay it was 2003) two German friends started dreaming up a tent. The funny part is eight years later they’ve got their own startup that sells an innovative tent. Partially funded by a European incubator, Heimplanet is the collaborative offspring of Stefan Clauss and Stefan Diekhoff, who think they’ve [...]

Art Lebedev has this week unveiled a few more details about its Optimus Popularis Keyboard, which includes a small screen on each of its keys allowing you to display any characters you would like as shown in the image below. In the upper portion of the keyboard, between the function and numeral keys, an area [...]

Over the years we have featured a number of simulators here on Geeky Gadgets, but a new one has been created by Australia’s Deakin University which provides six degrees of freedom and can generate as much as 6G of force. The new simulator was built by the university’s Center for Intelligent Systems Research (CISR) with [...]

Google has this week rolled out a new functionality its added to its search results, with the addition of a new graphing calculator. Google’s new graphing calculator ids sure to be appreciated by maths fans and students worldwide. The graphing calculator feature now allows you to plot mathematical functions right on the search result page. [...]

A new fan made Mass Effect film is currently under development by The Sneaky Zebra. Who have this week released a few teasers, showing a little of what you can expect from the characters featured in the short film once its officially released. The Sneaky Zebra have rolled out three character profile videos and you can [...]

What was that? is this post high or something? Relax, because you’re in for a treat. it’s even better if you’re a Star Wars fan. If you thought the earlier post on old Empire Strikes Back-era footage was intoxicating, wait until you feast thyne eyes on this weird video that landed on Youtube recently. It [...]

We have featured a number of different tunes played by older computer equipment. But Canadian YouTube user BD594 has put together a great collect of retro computers and peripherals to create a retro tech orchestra. Which they have then used to play the famous Animals song “House of the Rising Sun”. Watch the results after [...]

If you are looking for a mobile charging station that will allow you to charge four different devices at the same time. Then this new creation from Restoration Hardware might be worth a look. The Roll up charger allows you to keep all your charging connectors neatly stored when not in use and then once [...]

Wikipedia is a massive site and without people continually editing the site and its articles the Wikipedia’s content would soon become obsolete for many articles. If you have ever wondered just how many alterations are made on a daily basis a new website has been created which will reveal all for you, called Wikistream.  

In what amounts to a rather bad idea, Diesel has outed a line of superhero themed boxer briefs. Maybe this is DC Comics’ way at getting back at the Avengers movie. Strange though, because there’s even a Joker themed pair of briefs. Sorry folks, wearing them doesn’t grant superpowers. Besides, superheroes and underwear? Not a [...]